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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Peel | | First Name(s) | Lawrence | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | Birth Year | 1799 | | Death Year | 1884 | | Entry | Son of Joseph Peel, and nephew of Sir Robert Peel, first Baronet, and first cousin of the second Baronet, the Prime Minister : born Aug. 10, 1799 : educated at Rugby and St. John's College, Cambridge : called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 1824 : Treasurer, 1866 : Commissioner of the Board of Control, 1828 : Advocate- General at Calcutta, 1840-2 : Chief Justice of Bengal in 1842 : knighted : Vice-President of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1854-5 : retired, 1855: Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1856 : Director of the E. I. Co. from 1857 : D.C.L. Oxford, 1858 : died July 22, 1884. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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